Wars, suffering and blood shed fills the world’s history, and this is one of the reasons why many of the...
Month: November 2019
Lakeview Cemetery near Cleveland, Ohio, contains over 100,000 graves, including those of presidents and business moguls. President James A. Garfield...
If you ask medieval historian Michael McCormick of the University of Harvard what year was the worst to be alive,...
In Carinthia, Austria, there is a mountain called Pyramidenkogel, reaching 851 metre above sea level. That’s not very tall compared...
We are in Vienna. Many tourists who come to the Austrian capital visit the Zentralfriedhof, the Central Cemetery, which is...
Port Arthur is a small town and former convict settlement on the Tasman Peninsula, Australia. Port Arthur is one of...
Once a bustling mining and progressive town in the Atacama Desert, a few hundred kilometres from Chile's borders with Peru...
Nazi Germany maintained concentration camps throughout the territories it controlled before and during the Second World War. Killed in gas...
In medieval France a few different type of story was told as an alternative to the fairy tales or the...
St. Ignatius Hospital is a former manor hospital located in Colfax, Washington, United States, established in 1892 by the Sisters...
In a technological age like the one in which we live, characterized by the constant sharing on every social networks...
The Cimetière des Chiens et Autres Animaux Domestiques, translated as the Cemetery of the Dogs and other Domestic Animals, in...
In Vienna city center, the dark and imposing St. Stephen’s Cathedral (Stephansdom in German) draws thousands of tourists to gaze...
Bloomfield Hills is a quiet city located in Metro Detroit's northern suburbs in Oakland County in the U.S. state of...
We are in the wooded Shipley Glen, near the village of Saltaire in the English county of West Yorkshire. Originally...
In the small coastal town of Neskowin in Tillamook County in Oregon, somewhere between Lincoln City and Pacific City lie...
This small New Mexico town has gone by many names, and only acquired its present one in 1879 at the...
Coral Castle is one of the most visited places in Florida and is the most modern monolithic complex in the...
The Hampton Court hedge maze is the oldest surviving hedge maze in the United Kingdom. It is a multicursal maze,...
Being a nun and living in a convent is one that requires extreme commitment, particularly in the 14th century. For...
We are in Brazil. Driving to Rio de Janeiro, you might spot an eerie sight on the side of the...
There are fairies in the stream that runs through the village of Cottingley in West Yorkshire. It’s true, and there...
Located just a short drive from the abandoned (and almost disappeared) town of Santa Claus, Chloride seems to resemble any...
Even though the original structure of St. Paul Cathédrale de Liège goes back to the 10th century, it’s been built...
We are in Einburgh, Scotland. Scattered around the city center are a number of traffic signs that have been given...
Elisabeth Cochran Seaman (1864-1922) is probably not a well-known name, although perhaps the pseudonym with which she signed her articles,...
The Mojave desert, with its (very) hot summer sun, Joshua trees and rock formations, would not generally be the place...
High on the Ming Hill, Fengdu, or the “City of Ghosts,” is situated at the northern end of the Yangtze...
We are in Greece: Frangokastello, located in the south west coast of Crete, is a beautiful Venetian castle that was...
